CS2 Classified Skins

Classified is the pink grade, one step below Covert. The tier holds many popular finishes that look the part without a Covert price tag.

Sorted by how heavily each is traded. Open any skin to compare markets and find the cheapest listing or the best place to sell.

Where Classified sits in the rarity ladder

Classified is the pink (magenta) weapon grade, ranked directly below Covert (red) and directly above Restricted (purple). The full case ladder runs Mil-Spec (blue), Restricted (purple), Classified (pink), Covert (red), then the gold rare special slot for knives and gloves. It is the second-rarest finish you can pull from a standard weapon case and the second most expensive tier on average, behind Covert.

What a 3.20% drop rate actually means

Every weapon case rolls a grade on the canonical drop table: Mil-Spec 79.92%, Restricted 15.98%, Classified 3.20%, Covert 0.64%, and the rare special knife or gloves at 0.26%. A 3.20% chance works out to roughly one Classified for every 31 cases opened on average. That makes Classified about five times more common than a Covert but five times rarer than a Restricted, which is exactly why it lands in the middle of the price curve.

Why Classified is the value sweet spot

A large share of the game's clean, recognizable finishes sit at Classified instead of Covert, so you can run a design people instantly know without paying top-tier prices. The AK-47 Redline is the classic example: a Classified-grade skin that has stayed a community favorite for years. Because Classified drops five times more often than Covert (3.20% versus 0.64%), base prices stay far more reachable while the finish quality is comparable. For a strong-looking loadout on a limited budget, Classified usually gives the best look per dollar.

When a Classified skin still costs a lot

Grade sets a floor, not a ceiling. A Classified can climb past many Coverts when it carries rare stickers (Katowice 2014 holos are the textbook case), a very low float in Factory New, or a sought-after StatTrak version. Skins from discontinued or low-supply collections also command premiums because no new copies are entering circulation. Pattern-sensitive finishes add another layer, since specific paint seeds can produce rare visuals that collectors chase.

How Classified feeds trade-up contracts

Ten Classified skins of the same grade go into a trade-up contract to produce one Covert output. The result is pulled from the collections of your ten inputs, weighted by how many came from each collection, and Covert is the highest grade trade-ups can reach, so you cannot trade up into knives or gloves. The output float is the average of the ten input floats, rescaled into the output skin's own minimum and maximum wear range. Profitable trade-ups depend on input cost, output odds across the contributing collections, and float control, so they carry real risk of loss.

Float and wear on Classified skins

Wear is scored 0 to 1 and bucketed into Factory New (0.00 to 0.07), Minimal Wear (0.07 to 0.15), Field-Tested (0.15 to 0.38), Well-Worn (0.38 to 0.45) and Battle-Scarred (0.45 to 1.00). On Classified skins, Field-Tested is usually the price-to-looks sweet spot, while Factory New copies and sub-0.01 floats carry collector premiums. Some finishes hide wear well and look clean even in Field-Tested, so checking the actual texture beats trusting the wear label alone.